Brendan and company embarked from the Isle of Birds on Pentecost. After 40 days at sea, they began to be chased by a great sea beast. Brendan’s monks were greatly afraid of the beast but Brendan calmed them and told them to have faith in God’s protection. As the beast grew so close it began [...]
Archive for the ‘Brendan the Voyager’ Category
5 May
James Christensen’s St Brendan
This is one of my favorite modern paintings of St Brendan. Modern attitudes toward Brendan come in two strains: those trying to prove it was a real voyage and those with a more whimsical take on the legend. Few today take the legend as it was intended, as a spiritual journey and example of monastic [...]
13 Apr
Eastertide with Brendan & Company
Somehow an entire year has passed since I blogged on Brendan’s voyage through the church year, so here is an attempt to pick up where I left off. This time last year when we had just passed Holy Week with Brendan.
Brendan has just spent the Easter Vigil on the back of a great fish. Embarking [...]
23 Mar
O’Loughlin’s Celtic Theology
Thomas O’Loughlin’s Celtic Theology: Humanity, World, and God in Early Irish Writings, Continuum, 2000.
Going through my backlog of drafts and I just realized that I never came back and finished this book review. Better late than never!
This really is quite a valuable book that dispels some common myths and gives you a real sense for [...]
21 Mar
Brendan in the Vernacular
After nearly a year of neglect, its time to get back to blogging on St Brendan the Voyager. I’ll be picking up on the church year soon but for now I’d like to look at the vernacular translations of the Navigato Sancti Brendani abbatis.
The development of the voyage of Brendan is a complex one that [...]
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